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Using the format specified by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Recommendation E.164 for telephone numbers, a Canadian number is written as +1NPANXXXXXX, with no spaces, hyphens, or other characters; e.g. +12505550199 .
Canada. Caller ID spoofing remains legal in Canada, and has recently become so prevalent that the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has "add[ed] an automated message about [the practice] to their fraud-reporting hotline". The CRTC estimates that 40% of the complaints they receive regarding unsolicited calls involve spoofing.
Fictitious numbers in (011x) and (01x1) area codes mostly end with the digits 496 0xxx, however Tyneside uses (0191) 498 0xxx. London uses 020 7946 0xxx; Cardiff uses 029 2018 0xxx; and Northern Ireland now uses 028 9649 6xxx after a previously reserved range was allocated for actual use.
Canada: 911: Municipal services – 311 (some areas only). 112 may redirect to 911 on certain mobile phones. Mexico: 911: Emergency – 911; Anonymous complaint – 089. Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 112: Police – 17; Ambulance – 15; Fire – 18. United States of America: 911
1. International access. 011. List of dialing codes. The North American Numbering Plan ( NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean. This group is historically known as World Zone 1 and has the telephone country code 1. Some North American countries, most notably ...
Area code 604 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The numbering plan area comprises the Lower Mainland , Sunshine Coast , Howe Sound / Sea to Sky Corridor , Fraser Valley and the lower Fraser Canyon regions.
411 is a telephone number for local directory assistance in Canada and the United States. Until the early 1980s, 411 – and the related 113 number – were free to call in most jurisdictions. In the United States, the service is commonly known as "information", [1] although its official name is "directory assistance". [2]
555 (telephone number) The telephone number prefix 555 is a central office code in the North American Numbering Plan, used as the leading part of a group of 10,000 telephone numbers, 555-XXXX, in each numbering plan area (NPA) (area code). It has traditionally been used only for the provision of directory assistance, when dialing NPA-555-1212.
Canada: North 1 011 1 Several NANP codes; see Telephone numbers in Canada. Caribbean Netherlands: Caribbean 599-3, 4, or 7: 00 Cayman Islands: Caribbean 1-345: 011 1 Chile: South 56: 00 Colombia: South 57: 00 0 Trunk followed by 1 or 3 digit carrier code Costa Rica: Central 506: 00 Cuba: Caribbean 53: 00 Curaçao: Caribbean 599-9: 00 Dominica ...
In rural areas with magneto crank telephones connected to party lines, the local phone number consisted of the line number plus the ringing pattern of the subscriber. To dial a number such as "3R122" meant making a request to the operator the third party line (if making a call off your own local one), followed by turning the telephone's crank ...